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Was it for this? II
Michael Burke 06/12/2010
Michael Burke: Ahead of tomorrow's Budget, it may be worth taking stock and posing the question, How did it come to this? The Irish Times leader …
The €67.5 (not €85) billion bailout
Jim Stewart 02/12/2010
Jim Stewart: Whatever the Taoiseach thought he was doing at the press conference last Sunday) in announcing the EU/IMF net loans to Ireland of …
Michael Burke in the Guardian: who's being bailed out?
29/11/2010
Somewhat belated, but here is a link to PE blogger Michael Burke's opinion piece in Saturday's Guardian newspaper.
Ireland, bond markets and democracy
29/11/2010
"Making the “market” the actor abstracts from the real world of speculators and financial fraud. It facilitates the mythology that the …
UNITE letter to opposition parties
Michael Taft 29/11/2010
Michael Taft: Today, Jimmy Kelly, Regional Secretary of the trade union UNITE, sent a letter to the leaders of the opposition parties – Fine Gael, …
Implications of the IMF deal
Tom O'Connor 29/11/2010
Tom O'Connor: The IMF deal which has just being announced should be filed under fairy stories. It is economically unrealistic and would be an …
Never a reckless lender be
Tom McDonnell 26/11/2010
Tom McDonnell: One of the images below is from Patrick Honohan's paper in the Economic and Social Review June 2009. If you combine the two you can …
With friends like these ..... Michael Burke on the view from the UK
24/11/2010
PE's Michael Burke has an article on the Socialist Economic Bulleting putting the Irish situation into context for British readers: Like Greece …
Krugman on the bailout - and why the markets aren't impressed
23/11/2010
"The basic situation is that given the cost of rescuing Ireland’s banks, and the damage harsh austerity is inflicting on Ireland’s economy, …
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Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …